Poetical Remains
| Author | : Samantha Matthews |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2004-06-17 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780199254637 |
| ISBN-13 | : 019925463X |
| Rating | : 4/5 (63X Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Poetical Remains by : Samantha Matthews
Download or read book Poetical Remains written by Samantha Matthews and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1862 Dante Gabriel Rossetti buried his unpublished poems in his dead wife's grave; in 1869 he dug them up and published them. This innovative cultural history, drawing on emerging disciplines of book history and death studies, explores the many strange stories about the deaths of Romantic and Victorian poets, and the 'last words', books, relics, memorials, and objects that survived them.
